My habilitation was published as Wildness, Justice and Aesthetics: Imaginaries of Future Urban Natures.
The book surveys emerging ways of conceptualizing the relationship between the urban, the natural, and the wild. It explores different models through which cities and nature might coexist, reflects on why the concept of “nature” remains philosophically meaningful despite its contested history. Although the city is nature in a trivial ontological sense—insofar as everything is, in some way, nature—ordinary language often treats the city as an entity or space opposed to nature. The book explores avant-garde approaches in urbanism and architecture that seek to conceive of and then build cities that are in various ways reconciled to nature. It analyzes possible issues of justice and aesthetics, as well as efforts to integrate the wild into the civic sphere of the city.
Here are some reviews of my book:
- “Wildness, Justice, and Aesthetics is highly original, fascinating, beautifully written, and very thoroughly researched.” Jonathan Wolff, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK
- “This is a fantastic book. It is rich in content, exciting, novel in its argument, and, on top of everything, well-written.” Avner de Shalit, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
My dissertation was published as A Picture Held Us Captive: On Aisthesis and Interiority in Ludwig Wittgenstein, Fyodor M. Dostoevsky and W.G. Sebald, as part of the series On Wittgenstein at Walter de Gruyter.
The perceptibility of interiority, for instance intention and pain, occupies much of Wittgenstein’s philosophical thought. But it is also an overlooked motif in Dostoevsky’s novels, whom Wittgenstein read obsessively throughout his life, as well as in W. G. Sebald’s work, containing numerous references to Wittgenstein. This book reflects on the role literature can play in answering the philosophical question of what is an ethical representation of others’ inner life.
Here are some reviews of my book:
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